“This past weekend our Digital Game Hub Coordinator Robert Mostyn had a busy weekend reppin’ “! Dairy barn, livestock, live music and new this year, #videogames! We exhibited Hack, Slash, and Backstab as well as A Small Robot Story. Fair attendees of all ages were thrilled to play games at the fair as well as find out that […]
Greetings from The Strong Museum! We are delighted to co-host the Replaying Japan 2017 conference here in #ROC! The Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction and Creativity (MAGIC) and the School of Interactive Games and Media invite you to join us on campus at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) for an evening reception in conjunction […]
Farewell to Dawn is a mixed reality dance performance which explores two dancers’ voyage from a physical space to a virtual stage and back, as the day passes before them. It is a collaboration between RIT and the Nazareth College department of theatre and dance. Performance of the piece is achieved using the […]
Case Based Learning (CBL) (and variations like Problem Based Learning) implements an educational approach based on realistic real-world cases to provide the context for learning. CBL is widely used for teaching in Law, Medicine, Information Technology, Psychology, and other fields where problem solving and understanding the human component is important. Here in the METAL Lab […]
We believe that Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are going to be “the next big thing.” Between the disposable Google Cardboard and the pricey Oculus Rift there is still much room for makers to experiment and students to learn the nuts and bolts (both literally and figuratively) of VR/AR. This is a project […]
Two tag-based authoring systems, A-frame on the client-side, and Molly on the server-side, when used together can dynamically generate web-based Virtual Reality (VR) scenes. A-Frame is a tag-based abstraction layer built on top of WebVR and JavaScript and is used to create virtual reality environments and applications that run in a web browser. Molly is […]
Project Galen began in 2011 as a student-developed, open-source, standards-based Electronic Health Record (EHR) system. It was built for touch-screen tablet devices that would access a database server rather than store data on the tablet. Project Galen employed user-centered design techniques that reduced the depth of hierarchical structures that are commonly found in menu-driven EHR […]
Adrienne Decker, associate professor, School of Interactive Games and Media and MAGIC affiliate has recently been awarded an NSF IUSE grant collaboratively with Briana Morrison, assistant professor, Computer Science, University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO) and Lauren Margulieux, assistant professor, College of Education & Human Development’s Learning Technologies Division, Georgia State University (GSU). Also participating as […]
